John Adams will host a special screening of the Italian film I Am Love, starring Tilda Swinton, at the San Francisco International Film Festival, followed by a Q&A, at The Castro Theatre this Sunday afternoon. Several of Adams's works surge with new life as the score to film, which was directed and produced with Adams's music in mind. Following the film's recent UK theatrical release, the Times of London gave it five stars, noting its "sublime score."
John Adams will host a special screening of the Italian film I Am Love (Io sono l'amore) at the San Francisco International Film Festival, followed by a Q&A, at The Castro Theatre this Sunday afternoon. Several of Adams's works surge with new life as the score to film. Itself a 10-year labor of love from director Luca Guadagnino and actress Tilda Swinton, I Am Love was directed and produced with Adams's music in mind.
Following its UK theatrical release on April 9, the Times of London gave the film a perfect five stars, exclaiming: "Elegantly paced, exquisitely photographed and blessed with a sublime score by John Adams, the film references both Visconti and Hitchcock, but is a masterpiece in its own right."
Over the coming months, Adams and Swinton will be hosting screenings in major cities around the US, and will be in New York City for a red-carpet premiere gala on June 16, announcing the June 18 opening of the film in the States.
The film's score features music from a number of works by John Adams: the "Desert Chorus" from the opera The Death of Klinghoffer; Fearful Symmetries; the third movement from Shaker Loops, "Loops and Verses"; Lollapalooza; Part III from Harmonielehre, "Meister Eckhardt and Quackie"; movement one from Century Rolls; and the aria "Some men you cannot satisfy" from Act III of Nixon in China.
For more details on the film, including a full US screening schedule and trailer, visit iamlovemovie.com. To explore the Nonesuch John Adams catalog, visit the Nonesuch Store.
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